They must have been really disappointed by those results. Baseline levels of anxiety and depression weren't found to make a difference to the chance of a clinically important improvement.
And they'll keep saying so anyway. It's been their model from the start, and these people have shown a consistent pattern over decades of not caring one bit about evidence. That's why they started with assumptions devoid of any evidence. Many other awful researchers have started doing the same with LC, the problem isn't even with just this group of ideologues.
We even saw today yet another "review" of exercise treatments that report zero adverse reactions and a high degree of success, which completely contradicts real-world data but they don't know about that, don't bother with it. Evidence is entirely irrelevant to the evidence-based medicine process.
The big issue really isn't with them at this point, it's that they are allowed to get away with it. Their services will continue getting funding, will get referrals from within the healthcare system, and they will still be allowed to make claims that they, sometimes, debunk themselves. Even though by their own published data, they deliver nothing at all. They'll keep boasting about high rates of success anyway, and get away with it.
It's like corruption. It's one thing to find corruption. It's a whole other thing to find that the people whose job it is to keep corruption in check have known about corrupt individuals for decades and keep choosing to do nothing, even when the corruption has been exposed.
I find it hard it to blame them that much anymore, this is so much bigger than this small gang of quacks. It's a lot like all the self-important MDs who called every COVID wave the last, who sneered arrogantly at anyone disagreeing that herd immunity was sure to happen in months, how any long-term symptoms are caused by fear of the virus, "lockdowns" that never really happened, and a bunch of other nonsense.
None have lost their job, in fact many have been promoted, even awarded for being wrong. Awarded by their peers. Somehow. Peers who have cheered the end of measures that protected them and vulnerable people from repeat infections, which they decided must be harmless since people aren't dropping dead on the street.
Huge parts of this system are built to incentivize people being wrong. It nurtures them, funds them at the expense of people who got it right from the start. The only people who have actually gotten disciplined are those who were right all along and told uncomfortable truths.
The foundations of medicine are rotten. Somehow. I don't know how this mess gets cleared up other than with superintelligent AIs, it's just stuck in a loop of failure. They're as detached from reality as any old aristocracy was to things happening beyond the ramparts of their castles.
